The Washington critic., 1887-06-07
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
a. cattle quarantine has been declare II
Westohester VOunty, N. Y.

A. cattle quarantine has been declare 10
Westchester County, N. Y.
Brooklyn Republicans talk OF nominating
ex-Mayor Low for third term.
Free delivery OF mail matter will be es,
tablished at Cumberland July |.
The potato crop In Garrett County Is suf-
fering from ravages OF potato bugs.
Vim. o. 'Brien was rendered reception by
the New York Press Club last night.
Mechspicstown, Frederick Comfy, IS
about to have an efficient water supply.
George Neale, colored, is to be tried at
Rockville for assaulting Miss Gloyd over q
| year ago.
The new City Council OF Cumberland, !,
Nd, organized last night and confirmed q
number Of appointments.
President Gilman of Johns Hopkins Uni.
| vers!ty has been selected to address tho
Naval Academy cadets on graduation day. :,
A fire In the Augusta (Ga.) Hotel loft
| spread consternation last night, but the.
| money loss was Insignificant, three upper.
rooms being Quilted and two stories flooded
| with water.
| General John g. Black, the Commissioner
| Of Pensions, left Chicago yesterday for his
home at Danylle, Ill. He expects to be in
! Springfield, ILL.,, on the lIth, and will then
return to Washington.
James Mark Baldwin, A. NJ, Phi D., at
| present assistant professor OF modern Ian!
1 guages In Princeton College,, has accepted
/ call to the chair OF metaphysics at the
Lake Forest University. J
/ Arrangements are nearly completed for
holding SengerfestJ In Pittsburg next
month. The principal societies will come
from Harrisburg. Reading, Erie, Wheeling,
Cincinnati and Cleveland.
Most OF the opposition papers in Ven
Il I'm aIn MI apI 3 Ia h.
lieved that II President Blanco continues
his present policy many Of the Inhabitants
will flee from the Republic.
The schooner Katie G. Robinson, from
Richmond, Va, via Bermuda Hundred, ar
rived at Philadelphia yesterday, leaking GOO
strokes per hour, having struck sunken
wreck on the 9th instant nine miles east
northeast of Fenwick's Island.
In New York yesterday Captain Williams,
who bought wine at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
and Gilsey House Sunday, made complaint
against the respective propretors, Charles
N. Villas and James IL Bresliu. Warrants
were issued, and test case Of the law will
be made up.
B. F. Jones, chairman OF the Republican
National Executive Committee, left Pitts
burg for New York yesterday. lie said that
while he did not 20 there expressly to see
the Hon. James g.. Blaine leave for his
y
him goodbye.
The winning horses at st. Louis yesterday
were Wahoo, Huntress, Boccacio aud
Jacobin. The winners at brighton Beach
were Alaric, Wlnsail, Maroon, Armstrong,
Barnum and Mammonist. Mutuels In the
first race paid s6T25; In the fourth, So 30,
and in the sixth SGG.55,
Thomas b. Barry Of the executive board
Of the Knights Of Labor denies that the
L ,hara nft .f 4 al,a L. a..
cIeasing. He says they have a membership
Of between 100000 and 100000, and have
secured upward Of 10000 new members
since the Richmond convention.
| A national convention OF machinery con.
structors was begun at Pittsburg yesterday
The object Is to complete the organization
Of National Assembly 19S, Knights of La,
Dor, which Is to include machinists, black.
smiths, foundrymen, patternmakers, boiler
makers and their respective helpers.
| A committee representing the l,sOo en-
ployes OF the different mills Of the Reading,
Pa, iron works notified the management,
yesterday that they would not accept the
| proposed ten per cent. reduction an
nounced to take effect June 13. II the re
duction is enforced strike Is probable.
Freight shipments by rail East from Chi
cngo last week aggregated 2S,00l tons. The
percentages were as follows: Baltimore
and Ohio, 1913; Chicago and Grand Trunk
l5.5; Chicago, ct. Louis aud Pittsburg, 10
Lake Shore, 1872; Michigan Central, l3.2
New York, Chicago and st. Louis, 7.3; For
Wayne, $50; Cincinnati, indianapolis, st
Louis ard Chicago, 1.2.
While an omnibus load of people were re
turning from picnic at Red Bank, nea
Cincinnati, late Saturday night, the vehicl,
was overturned and all the occupants fortl
In number, precipitated down an embank
ment. Six persons were seriously injured
most Of whom were young ladies Olo o
them, Miss Frances Lindermlun, Is sup,
posed 10 he fatally hurt.